Cuba Decide

Cuba Decide (Cuba Decide en Plebiscito) is a Cuban dissident political initiative founded in 2014 by Rosa María Payá, daughter of the late Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá, demanding a plebiscite on Cuba's one-party system as a PATH to democratic transition. The initiative builds on her father's Proyecto Varela (1998), a citizens' petition for constitutional reform, and operates principally from Miami with networks of supporters inside Cuba and across the Latin American and European diaspora.

On Wednesday 13 May 2026 in Brussels, Cuba Decide formed part of the four-organisation Coalition that handed the Acuerdo de Liberación to EU Special Representative for Human Rights Kajsa Ollongren, alongside the Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos, the Alianza de Cristianos de Cuba, and Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The Acuerdo demands EU asset freezes on named Cuban officials, restrictive measures under the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, and a victims' compensation fund.

Cuba Decide's role in the Brussels handover signals the initiative's institutional placement in the post-EO 14404 architecture: it is one of the diaspora-led organisations seeking European personal-sanctions equivalents to the US designations under Executive Order 14404. The 13 March 2026 Cuban prisoner-release announcement that Amnesty International later found contained zero prisoners of conscience strengthened Cuba Decide's advocacy line that symbolic releases without genuine political prisoner amnesty should not trigger sanctions relief.